My latest in PJ Media:
Last Thursday, the Jesuit periodical America sounded a dark note: “Are Nigeria’s Christians the target of a genocide? That is the conclusion of a number of religious freedom analysts and Nigerian clergy.” Yet the venerable Leftist Catholic magazine’s warning was veritably dripping with irony, for the same publication has for quite some time been vilifying and smearing people who did speak out against the persecution of Christians in Nigeria and elsewhere.
America reported that “Boko Haram Islamic militants have for years raged against minority Christian communities in northern Nigeria, and their intention to drive out ‘Western’ influences and establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria seems clear. But increasingly brutal attacks on Christian villages in Nigeria’s central ‘middle belt’ region have been attributed to Fulani cattle herders and have been explained as the result of conflict over diminishing resources.” America even found that “Christians are being explicitly targeted in the ongoing violence.”
America quoted the Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Nigerian Catholic Diocese of Sokoto saying: “I would like to hear much much more from prominent archbishops in the United States and Europe.”
Yeah, that would be swell. But why aren’t these “prominent archbishops” saying anything about the persecution of Christians? A good clue comes from America magazine itself. While now, America has discovered that “Boko Haram Islamic militants have for years raged against minority Christian communities in northern Nigeria,” and that their fellow Muslim Fulani cattle herders have also carried out “increasingly brutal attacks on Christian villages,” in 2018, it was worried about “so-called experts seeking to spread misinformation and fear” about Islam.
This “misinformation and fear” had to do with not accepting the Catholic Church’s new de facto superdogma that Islam is a religion of peace, and the “so-called experts” included me. Heedless of the fact that I had left the Catholic Church a considerable time before 2018, America claimed that year that I was producing “misinformed and ill-intentioned content on Islam, for Catholic audiences in particular.” Some of this alleged “misinformation” was apparently the idea that “Muslims’ faith tradition is responsible for violence.”
There is much more. Read the rest here.
somehistory says
The “Kiss of death” …how fitting for the two of them. Both these **religious** creeps are leading others down the dark road to destruction. The pope guy has not been any encouragement for anyone wishing to tell the truth…he lies and expeccts those in his power to do the same.
Gray says
The mainstream Churches have totally lost touch with reality. The persecution of Christian in Muslim majority countries has almost reached the point that there will be no Christian presence whatsoever anywhere in the Middle East, outside of Israel. There will be no Christian presence anywhere in most of those areas where Christianity began, and which were once almost entirely Christian. For instance, I understand that Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, is now 70-80% Muslim, and has a Muslim mayor. So thanks Jimmah Cahtar, and your ‘Camp David Accords’. So it’s hardly surprising that the numbers of Christians in most of the mainstream Churches in the West are in free fall, while the Christian Churches are growing in Africa. But what did Christians Church leaders in the West expect would happen, when they started babbling incoherently at their multi-Faith gatherings about the ‘different paths to the one God’ while their brothers and sisters in Christ in Muslim dominated countries are exterminated?
gravenimage says
All grimly true. Gray.
George Mike says
These problems went into overdrive when useful idiots in this country elected a communist Jihad his horrible effects still linger on due to a fawning MSM and all the fellow travelers, ie group think leftist!
curious george says
Gray
+1
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 7:22-23
CogitoErgoSum says
Over the past 60 years or so, since television came along, Western leaders began to think of themselves as being actors on a stage. Bill Clinton was the most obvious to me. I could almost see it on his face that he was always thinking, “Look at me. I’m President of the United States.” And he had to act out the part as he thought in his mind the role should be played. This Pope gives me that same impression. He has in his mind what he’s supposed to appear to be when he’s before the public but it’s all just an act. He isn’t really what he appears to be. It’s all some kind of fantasy to these people who are just strutting and fretting upon the world stage until the curtain comes down.
mortimer says
CES, you are saying the pope is a shallow man. I think he is sincerely wrong because he can’t observe what he is seeing. He processes everything through his leftist goggles which distort reality. When asked to identify two fingers that are held up, he says, ‘Four’, because that is the politically correct answer.
Tony Naim says
Had the Swiss Guard owned F-35s, Stealth Bombers or Cruise missiles, this picture would not have existed. What is scary though is the fact that our own government, with all the abundance of great minds in the form of Islamic scholars who advise it, have no clue how to deal with the evil of sharia.
No wonder, the same enlightened scholars who continue to study Islam every day, still have no idea how sharia functions much less to claim they possess the knowhow to deconstruct it !?
It is no surprise we are caught in 2 wars with no end!?
….let’s blame the Pope for our own failures.
CogitoErgoSum says
The Pope is not interested in deconstructing Islam. He wants to make the world a more welcoming place for it to thrive … at the expense of his own religion. No greater love hath any man than he that lays down the lives of those he loves for those who despise him.
mortimer says
CES is spot on: the pope wants to make the world a more welcoming place for Islam to thrive. He’s an ’emotional thinker’. I don’t understand how the Jesuits ever accepted him. He cannot think rationally as a Jesuit is supposed to.
Miguel Ángel says
Although not a roman catholic myself, but rather protestant- church of Scotland- I cannot fathom that the most powerful father in the CC cannot say any truths or even to highlight the evils persecuted on christianity throughout the world. When Jeremy Corbyn the jihadist lover & anti british cretin, was running for prime minister, well on a rally route to glasgow a local minister spoke to him from the crowd and said ‘ I thought it would be a jihadi scarf you would be wearing not a tartan one’ ..we can’t have a terrorist sympathiser as the prime minister of this country! and he went on to say – who will be the first terrorist invited to downing street?Now the result was Reverend Richard Cameron losing his ministry within the church. This is freedom of speech. My point being any person in my country Scotland, cannot criticise a man such as Jeremy Corbyn without being labelled Islamophobic, yet we are a tiny country with less power than rome. I can’t understand the holy father’s stance on the inability to call a spade a spade . Truth is in the bible , part of christianity. I really wasn’t aware of how big this problem was . Although I dislike a couple of things about donald trump, generally I love the guy.. he seems to be the only guy in a powerful position with the backbone to call this stuff out. He reminds me of Margaret Thatcher . Was marmite. But by god that woman had bigger balls than any man in Westminster. I sincerely hope &pray trump remains as I fear the more I learn about the evils of Islam, the religion of peace. The amount of women and men raped by them in my country is unbelievable and played down as they are asylum seekers. It’s sickening ! Thanks for all your comments & thank God for robert Spencer. I enjoy learning from people like yourselves. Luv&peace from Glasgow, a once great city , now overrun with asylum seekers damaging our society
wpm says
The current Pope has appease Islam ,calling it a religion of peace ,he has called and supported for the importation of millions of ” Moslem refugees” most that are military age men to invade Europe .As Islam has created mayhem in war torn countries in the Middle East ,Africa and Asia he has remained silent .He is more worry about global warming ,raising in nationalism in the western world , SJW causes,pushing communist causes then in defending Christians in third world countries under the threat of Jihad terrorism .Now he comes out of his slumber because it is starting to hit the MSM and he has to do damage control for his inactivity over the last 6 years.Many western leaders have failed the Pope is among them who have appeased Islam with no reduction in violent Jihad against the “unbelievers of Islam”.
gravenimage says
After Demonizing All Who Opposed Jihad Terror, Catholic Mag Wonders Why No One Speaks Out Against It
……………………
Yep. It’s like “If you see something, say something”, excoriating anyone who does say something as a “racist”, then wondering why so few people report anything suspicious before it’s too late…
James Lincoln says
+1
Wellington says
Agreed, gravenimage. It’s essentially a new kind of Catch-22.
GreekEmpress says
Catholic mag would do well to ask the pope why he is AWOL on jihad terror.
(Not holding my breath.)
mortimer says
Well said, the pope is awol on the reality of jihad terror. He is ‘thinking’ emotionally and ignoring the blatantly brutal facts of the Islamic war on Christians.
Dapto says
The Poop is a Muslim convert thats why the Catholic church and Vatican no longer stands up for Christians.
mortimer says
The pope is a leftist supporting the Red-Green Axis against traditionalism.
James Lincoln says
Dapto,
Even if the pope is not “officially” a muslim, it doesn’t matter – he sure acts like one.
americanpatriot says
There are only a handful of few international Christian church leaders who are noticing this Islamic assault against non-Islamic people being waged by those of so-called peaceful religion of Islam. The nature and ultimate purpose of Islam is quite simple and plain to see and witness if Church leaders read Islam’s the most holy book, various hadiths and the history of Islam. It is not a complex problem which needs a lot of explanation. The more non-Islamic world is ignorant of Islam, the quicker it will be subjugated under Islam because nowadays it is using a lot of deceptive front organizations and methods to deceive and destruct non-Muslim disbelievers.
Michael Copeland says
Exactly.
“…it is a duty incumbent on every Muslim to struggle towards the aim of making every people Muslim and the whole world Islamic“ – Hassan al Banna (www.watson37)
“Islam must dominate, and not be dominated” – Hassan al Banna
“The Muslim nation is one nation, to the exclusion of all others” – placard http://www.ThinkAfricaPress
See “Islam’s Agenda: Muslims Speak”
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
Miguel Ángel says
Thank you I’m going to look that up when I’ve time. Luv&peace from Glasgow
Ecosse1314 says
My home town. Can hardly recognise the place now.
Adam says
Its hard to see how anyone could turn to this Catholic church for the right answers or the truth. Much easier to destroy then to build, another irony.
It seems the salt has lost its saltiness.
tgusa says
“vilifying and smearing people who did speak out against the persecution of Christians in Nigeria and elsewhere.”
Have the Jesuits decided to convert to Christianity?
Rob says
The only Western leader that Islam has found compatible was Adolf Hitler.
gravenimage says
Muslims *hate* Infidels, but regularly make an exception for Adolf Hitler. So telling.
mortimer says
Leading Christian clergy should be on the phone to their leading national politicians to demand action to stop the ongoing 25-year-old genocide in Nigeria.
Previous to the last 25 years, there were the genocidal attacks on Christians in Nigeria that led to the secession of Biafra from Nigeria between 1967 and 1970.
mortimer says
May the Jesuits succeed in penetrating the thick skull of a pope who is not listening to well-informed, intelligent members of his church who CAN SEE and KNOW what Islam is. There are many Jesuits who have Islam figured out … God help them to get through.
mortimer says
What is happening to the editors of the Jesuit periodical America ? Is someone there starting to use FACTS, LOGIC and REASON in the matter of Islam?
They are deviating from the party line of Bergoglio. They should read a couple of Robert Spencer’s 19 books on Islam, especially The History of Jihad.
mortimer says
MESSAGE TO the Jesuit periodical America and Jesuits in general :
‘Reverend Sirs, What’s happening in Nigeria is called “JIHAD”. Thank you.
Mario Alexis Portella says
Well said, Mr. Spencer!
OLD GUY says
Sticking your head in the sand exposes your ass. The church and political leaders that are ignoring the islamic migrant invasion are setting up the enslavement and death of millions.
Martin Bernard Vink says
Since the Pope and the Imam are against homosexuality, they must throw each other off a tall building after kissing each other.